The Factors of Mental Maladjustment of Law Enforcement Officers
- DOI
- 10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.20How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- mental maladjustment, law enforcement officers, professional factors, social factors, individual psychological factors.
- Abstract
The article presents the data of the study of mental maladjustment factors of law enforcement officers. The study involved 153 employees of the Internal Affairs bodies. It is established that more than 30 % of experts of an extreme profile have a complex of mental disadaptation signs. The system of factors contributing to the development of mental maladjustment: professional, social and individual psychological. The main professional factors include the profile of professional activity, stress conditions of official activity, a high level of organizational stress, the specifics of the activity, length of service. To social – lack of family and children, the presence of 3 or more children, low level of education, a tendency to limit social contacts. To individual & psychological – personal resources –using of maladaptive coping strategies, low overall adaptive capacity, inadequately inflated self-esteem, low rates of mental abilities; somatic disorders, high level of anxiety, signs of depression, neuropsychiatric instability. The results should be taken into account in the development of preventive measures to reduce the likelihood of mental maladjustment.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Maria Korehova AU - Andrey Soloviev AU - Iгina Novikova PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - The Factors of Mental Maladjustment of Law Enforcement Officers BT - Proceedings of the II International Scientific-Practical Conference "Psychology of Extreme Professions" (ISPCPEP 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 80 EP - 83 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.20 DO - 10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.20 ID - Korehova2019/06 ER -